Vehicle wheel



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B. R. ROBLIN Fil M y 29 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEYS.

B. R. ROBLIN VEHICLE WHEEL Filed May 29 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Mar. ll, i924.

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BROOK R. ROBLIN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSTGNOR- TO LIGHTNING CHANGE AUTO WHEEL CORPORATION, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

"VEHICLE WHEEL.

Application filed May 29, 1922. Serial No. 564,286.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Bacon R. Roman, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to vehicle wheels and more particularly to the type having a fixed and ademountable rim and a locking mechanism for the rim of the type disclosed in my application for patent, Serial Number 455,383, filed March 25, 1921. An object of this invention is to provide an improved construction which will be less expensive to manufacture and more effective in action.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described; the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims. 7

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a vehicle wheel embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2'shows the vehicle wheel with the pneumatic tire and demountable rim removed; 7

Fig. 3 is a view of the channelled annular or ring member forming part of the casmg;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary edge view of a portion of the channelled or ring member;

Fig. 5 ring;

Fig. 6 is an edge view of the operating ring; 7

Fig. 7 is an edge view of the channel closs ng;

Fig. 8 is'a fragmentary plan viewof the channel closing ring; l

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary view partially in section of the locking mechanism on a larger scale than that shown in Figs. 1 to 8 inclusive, thelocking device being'shown projected;

Fig.10 is a fragmentary section sim lar to Fig. 9showing one of the locking devices in retracted position;

Fig. 11 is a section on the line 1111, Fig. 9 showing the locking device attached to a wheel; and

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary view of the fixed is a plan view of the operating rim showing one of the bolts employed for securing the locking mechanism in place.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the wheel having a fixed wooden felly 2 on which a fixed rim 3 is fitted, this rim having an outwardly projecting flange 4 against which a channelled demountable rim 5 rests at one side, this channelled demountable rim having lugs 6 on the under side for engagement with the fixed metallic rim 3 at one side of the flange 4:. This form of wheel is well-known and no claim per se is made thereto. The feature of this invention is the means by which the demountablerim 5 is removably secured on the fixed rim 8. In this instance, the locking mechanism utilizes bolts 7 which are passed through transverse openings in the felly 2, and secured on the inner side of the wheel by nuts 8, washers 9 and 10 being arranged on the bolts on the opposite sides of the felly 2. p

The locking mechanism is supported on these bolts 7 within a casing formed, in this instance, by an annular or ring shaped member 11 which is provided on one side with a channel, the thickness of this ring shaped member being substantially that of the felly 2 andthe channel side of this member being disposed toward said felly, so that the washers 9 may be received within the channel. Also fitting in the channel and acting as a closure for the latter to form another part of the casing is an annular plate12, this plate also fitting on the bolts 7 and being spaced from the bottom of the channel by washers or hearing pieces 13 surrounding the bolts 7.

The locking devices are preferably in the form of dogs or detents 14 pivoted on the spacing bearing sleeves 13 which surround the bolts 7 and operable into and out of the casins 'the casin for this ur ose having the outer wall of its channel member provided at intervals with slots or openings 15 through Whioh'the dogs or detents 14.- may be projected in order to engage with the adjacent side of the deinountable rim 5, and the ends of the dogs being bevelled at in so as to enter into binding engagement with the sides of the demountable rim 5. V Y

The operating mechanism for the dogs or detents 14: in this instance, is in the form of a ring 16 fitting in the channel member 11. between the bottom of the latter and the cover plate 12 and in the plane of the detents. This operating memberis formed at intervals with notches, the walls of which cooperate with the detents to effect the projection and retraction of said detents through the openings 15. The notches are of such size as to receive the detents within them when such detents are retracted. The walls 17 and 17 of these notches act as cams and cooperate with the detents id in such manner that when the operating ring 16 is moved in one direction, the detents will be projected and held in projected positions, whereas, when the operating ring is moved in the other direction, the detents will be retracted and held in retracted positions.

The operation of the operating ring 16 may be effected in any suitable manner. In this instance, the ring is provided in its inner periphery with a notch, one wall of which is provided with teeth 18. With these teeth a gear wheel 19 cooperates. This gear wheel hasv bearing projections 20 on opposite sides, journalled in an opening 21 in the bottom of the channel and an opening 22 in the closure ring 12. This gear wheel has a headed non-circular projection 23 projecting from. one side thereof through the opening 21 and adapted to be engaged by a wrench vor other tool for the purpose of shifting the operating ring 16. With the end in view of securing the operatin ring in its adjusted position, a detaining means is provided. This detaining means, in this instance, is in the form of a pivoted detent 24 pivoted at 25 on a shaft connecting the channel member 11 and the closure ring 12, this detent lying within a slot 26 in the inner wall of the channel memher and having a portion 27 projecting through said slot for manual pressure in order to throw the nose portion 28 out of cooperation with the gear wheel 13 so as to permit the turning of said gear wheel.

A spring 29 acts on this detent 2 ltor the purpose of maintaining this nose 28 in inter locking relation with the gear 19.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided an improved e sing which would be efi ective for excludin dirt and dust from the operating part. This casing embodies a channel member opening to the telly of the wheel. Tn this channel member the locking devices and operating ring are mounted as well as the gear for turning the operating ring. The inner face of the channel member is closed by a closure member and this with the channel member is supported upon bolts passed through the telly of the wheel.

What I claim asmy invention and desire to secure Letters Patent is 1. in combination with a vehicle wheel having a fixed rim and a demonntable rim, a ring detachably supported on said wheel at one side of the rim and having a channel in one side, the outer wall of the channel being provided with openin s, loci:- ing devices mounted in the channel and adapted to be projected through said open ings to cooperate with the demountable rim in order to hold the latter on the tired rim and means operating in said channel for cooperating with the locking devices to eftest their movement toward and from looking position. 7 p

2. in combin on with a vehicle wheel having a tired I n and a deinountable rim, a ring detachabi supported on said wheel at one'side of c i' and having a channel in one the outer wall of the channel being provided with openings, looking devices mounted in the channel and adapted to be projected through said openings to cooperate with the demountable rim in order to hold the letter on the fired rim, and operating ring mounted in the channel and turning on the innermost wall of the latter as a bearing to etiect the move ment of the locking devices toward and from locking position.

3. In combination with a vehicle wheel having a fixed rim and a demountable rim, a ring dotachably supported on said wheel and having a channel in one side, the chan nel side "facing toward the wheel and the outermost wall of the channel being provided with openings, locking device's mounted within the channel and adapted to be moved to and fromloclzing position through the. openings, and an operating ring for the locking devices mounted in the channel and turning on the innermost wall of the latter; In combination with a vehicle wheel having a fixed rim and a demountablerim, a channel member having a channel face on one side disposed toward the tired rim, bolts passing through the fixed rim and the channel member to hold the latter detachably to the fixed rim, a cover member arranged in the channel member and held by the bolts, bearings spacing the cover member for the vbottom oi the channel member, look ing devices pivoted on said spacing bearings and operable through the openings in the onterinost wall of the channel member to cooperate with the demountable rim. in order to hold the latteron the fir-fed rim and means for operating said locking devices. 5. In combination with a telly, a fixed rim secured to the fellv and provided with a flange at one side formed witha seat, a demountable rim adapted to slip sidewise over the fixed rim to cooperate with said seat on the flange, a member having a channel in one side disposed toward, i316 telly, the outermost periphery of the channel member being flush with the fixed rim so meme: m

as to permit the demountable rim to he slipped over said channel member onto the fixed i'iin, said flush face having openings extending therethrongh into the channel of the channel member, locking devices mounted in said channel member adapted to be projected through said openings to engage the demountable rim and means for effecting the operation of said locking devices simultaneously toward and from looking position.

6. In combination with a vehicle Wheel having a fixed run and a denionntable run,

two ring members supported by the wheel, locking devices pivotally mounted between said two rings and adapted to be moved toward and from positions between the rings, an operating ring arranged between the rings and having notches in Which the locking devices are adapted to be received, t is Walls of said notches cooperating with said locking devices efi'ecting the movement 0' the latter toward and from locking position, said operating ring also having a notch, one Wall of Which is formed with gear teeth and an operating gear for the ring supported between the two rings in the notch and cooperating with the gear teeth to eifect the movement of the operating ring.

7. The combination With an annular memher having a channel in one side face thereof, the outermost Wall of the channel being provided With openings, of an operating ring mounted in the channel member and provided with notches, and locking devices mounted in the channel member adapted to be received Within the notches of the open ating ring and to cooperate with the Walls of said notches to be moved toward and from locking position in the channel member.

BRUCE R. RGBLKN. 

